Gruel, etc.

Usage examples of porridges.

The porridges in the iron pens, however, are as ugly and tasteless a gruel, and deliberately so, as might be imagined.

He advocated porridges and cold water, plain breads and stewed root vegetables.

But I had noticed that he ate like an invalid, without appetite, eschewing meat and bread as if they were too great of an effort to chew and swallow and instead subsisting on porridges and soups.

The fruit, though poisonous when raw, was indispensable in the sharp, harsh stews and porridges favored in the Ghayrog cuisine.

Joseph found himself thinking longingly of the stewed meat they ate in those villages, the porridges, the milky wine.

Thick earthenware pots rested on small openings atop the stone oven, bubbling warmly with morning porridges and stews.

He was more interested in making sure that he didn't drip anything on his uniform—and vastly more so in watching al-Bakilani, al-Idrisi, and particularly the man who had not been introduced—than he was in whatever the various porridges were that he was supposed to sop up with the flat Arab bread.